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||  What questions do you have? || What answers can you offer? || Savkova says: || Trow you whither I am going? To Baptista Minola. I promis'd to enquire carefully About a schoolmaster for the fair Bianca; And by good fortune I have lighted well On this young man; for learning and behaviour Fit for her turn, well read in poetry And other books- good ones, I warrant ye. HORTENSIO. 'Tis well; and I have met a gentleman Hath promis'd me to help me to another, A fine musician to instruct our mistress; So shall I no whit be behind in duty To fair Bianca, so beloved of me. GREMIO. Beloved of me- and that my deeds shall prove. GRUMIO. And that his bags shall prove. HORTENSIO. Gremio, 'tis now no time to vent our love. Listen to me, and if you speak me fair I'll tell you news indifferent good for either. Here is a gentleman whom by chance I met, Upon agreement from us to his liking, Will undertake to woo curst Katherine; Yea, and to marry her, if her dowry please. GREMIO. So said, so done, is well. Hortensio, have you told him all her faults? PETRUCHIO. I know she is an irksome brawling scold; If that be all, masters, I hear no harm. GREMIO. No, say'st me so, friend? What countryman? PETRUCHIO. Born in Verona, old Antonio's son. My father dead, my fortune lives for me; And I do hope good days and long to see. GREMIO. O Sir, such a life with such a wife were strange! But if you have a stomach, to't a God's name; You shall have me assisting you in all. But will you woo this wild-cat? PETRUCHIO. Will I live? GRUMIO. Will he woo her? Ay, or I'll hang her. PETRUCHIO. Why came I hither but to that intent? Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puff'd up with winds, Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordnance in the field, And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a fariner's fire? Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. GRUMIO. For he fears none. GREMIO. Hortensio, hark: This gentleman is happily arriv'd, My mind presumes, for his own good and ours. HORTENSIO. I promis'd we would be contributors And bear his charge of wooing, whatsoe'er. GREMIO. And so we will- provided that he win her. GRUMIO. I would I were as sure of a good dinner.
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 * GREMIO. And you are well met, Signior Hortensio.

Enter TRANIO, bravely apparelled as LUCENTIO, and BIONDELLO

TRANIO. Gentlemen, God save you! If I may be bold, Tell me, I beseech you, which is the readiest way To the house of Signior Baptista Minola? BIONDELLO. He that has the two fair daughters; is't he you mean? TRANIO. Even he, Biondello. GREMIO. Hark you, sir, you mean not her to- TRANIO. Perhaps him and her, sir; what have you to do? PETRUCHIO. Not her that chides, sir, at any hand, I pray. TRANIO. I love no chiders, sir. Biondello, let's away. LUCENTIO. [Aside] Well begun, Tranio. HORTENSIO. Sir, a word ere you go. Are you a suitor to the maid you talk of, yea or no? TRANIO. And if I be, sir, is it any offence? GREMIO. No; if without more words you will get you hence. TRANIO. Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free For me as for you? GREMIO. But so is not she.

TRANIO. For what reason, I beseech you? GREMIO. For this reason, if you'll know, That she's the choice love of Signior Gremio. HORTENSIO. That she's the chosen of Signior Hortensio. TRANIO. Softly, my masters! If you be gentlemen, Do me this right- hear me with patience. Baptista is a noble gentleman, To whom my father is not all unknown, And, were his daughter fairer than she is, She may more suitors have, and me for one. Fair Leda's daughter had a thousand wooers; Then well one more may fair Bianca have; And so she shall: Lucentio shall make one, Though Paris came in hope to speed alone. GREMIO. What, this gentleman will out-talk us all! LUCENTIO. Sir, give him head; I know he'll prove a jade. PETRUCHIO. Hortensio, to what end are all these words? HORTENSIO. Sir, let me be so bold as ask you, Did you yet ever see Baptista's daughter? TRANIO. No, sir, but hear I do that he hath two: The one as famous for a scolding tongue As is the other for beauteous modesty. PETRUCHIO. Sir, sir, the first's for me; let her go by. GREMIO. Yea, leave that labour to great Hercules, And let it be more than Alcides' twelve. PETRUCHIO. Sir, understand you this of me, in sooth: The youngest daughter, whom you hearken for, Her father keeps from all access of suitors, And will not promise her to any man Until the elder sister first be wed. The younger then is free, and not before. TRANIO. If it be so, sir, that you are the man Must stead us all, and me amongst the rest; And if you break the ice, and do this feat, Achieve the elder, set the younger free For our access- whose hap shall be to have her Will not so graceless be to be ingrate. HORTENSIO. Sir, you say well, and well you do conceive; And since you do profess to be a suitor, You must, as we do, gratify this gentleman, To whom we all rest generally beholding. TRANIO. Sir, I shall not be slack; in sign whereof, Please ye we may contrive this afternoon, And quaff carouses to our mistress' health; And do as adversaries do in law- Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. GRUMIO, BIONDELLO. O excellent motion! Fellows, let's be gone. HORTENSIO. The motion's good indeed, and be it so. Petruchio, I shall be your ben venuto. Exeunt || Hortensio is basically saying that he found a man that wants to marry Katherine if the dowry is good. A dowry is pretty much the money, goods or land the wife comes with when she and her beloved husband get married.

This highlighted text is showing you that petruchio is a conceited, arrogant, and cocky man. He is trying to say that he can handle a shrew of a wife for the money that comes with her.

Tranio is stating that it is not going to make any bit of a difference if bianca has one more wooer because the fair Leda's daughter had thousands of them.

I think tranio is saying that petruchio is basically the only way any of bianca's suitors can get to her is if petruchio marries katherine and that if he wins her love that we owe him a big thanks. ( i think?????) Hortensio is saying that if tranio wants to woo bianca he should help pay for the dates that petruchio takes katherine on because petruchio is helping them out a lot with getting katherine out of the way. Then, tranio says that he is not a slacker or a cheap guy and he has no problem with helping out with paying for dates & they should go drink & eat as freinds to talk about how this is going to work. Grumio and Biondello are saying "yeah! lets do it!"

Hortensio and Gremio are both suiters to Bianca, but Bainca cannot marry until her older sister Katherine does. Hortensio is telling Gremio that he found a man who is willing to woo Katherine, knowing that she is a shrew but wanting to marry her for her for the dowry he will get from her father when they wed.

Here Petruchio is saying how he can easily handle Katherine since he has braved all of these events. He says he has been in wars, storms on the seas, and heard lions roar and that none of them could compare to just a women. He comes off conceited and arogan like the last person stated, boasting all he has done.

Gremio and Hortensio are not happy that Tranio(as Lucentio) is wanting to woo Bianca as well. But then Tranio says basically "Don't I have the same rights as you?" He says that Paris had thousands of wooers in the story of Troy, so what would be so terrible about only one more for Bianca.

I basically agree with what the last person said about this last part. Tranio is saying of Petruchio can woo Katherine, he will be very gracious of his help. Then Hortensio agrees with him and says that Tranio should help pay for the dates with himself and gremio, since Pertruchio is doing them a large favor. He agrees saying he isn't cheap, which is easier for him to say since it isn't really his money. Then Tranio proposes they all put they're differences aside for now and go drink as friends. The servants think its a great idea. || Mrs. Savkova, was i right?? ||  || You are not only right,but you've done an awesome job of summarizing the text! Well done! ||